COMPLETE LIBERTY

Hey, Chad. I'm glad to hear of your reason for being otherwise occupied. :) Yet I'm sad about your experiences of tragedy during the last few months. I hope things have turned out ok. I realize that a lot of people look to religious ideas to find ...

Thanks for your comments Darrell. Sorry, I have not kept up with this...but....someone met a girl....LOL. I very much enjoy Wes' point of view and the interaction, though, I will admit that my level of intelligence as compared to Wes with regards ...

Thanks for your input, Darrell. Glad you found the conversation profound too. :) As you know, subsequent to this discussion, I befriended online a voluntaryist parent who unschools his two children and yet also endorses the tenets of Mormonism ...

Got to be the best discussion of religious faith and logical epistemology ever...sigh... I sure hope you follow up on those links, Chad, and everyone else reading, unless you are already familiar with the concepts. I find it helps to click and try ...

Hi again, Chad. I appreciate your extensive response. Like WW, I too am quite concerned about the mental welfare of kids who are taught to believe in arbitrary postulates, which include anything "supernatural" and in defiance of what can be ...

Hi Chad, You said that you became a Christian based your examination of the evidence associated with the gospels, yet you disagree that your own mind is the highest authority to distinguish fact from fiction. So you've used the authority of your ...

I really enjoy hearing your perspective Wes, and I can see that I have a lot to learn from you. Your post has been making me think this morning, to be sure, and examine things which I thoroughly enjoy. I like having my faith challenged and being ...

Hi again, Chad. Thanks for the in-depth reply. Lots of ideas to address here once again. The doctrine about human nature called "Total Depravity" (taken from St. Augustine, btw) is true in one sense: humans are indeed self-interested and pay no ...

Hi Chad, I'd like to know more about your basis for your oppostion to Gay marriage. If it has a strictly biblical basis would you be willing to cite the core passages that you derive it from?

Wes, Thank you for your comments and questions. First, I don't think that Emerson understood Calvinism's doctrine of Total Depravity. That doctrine doesn't teach that the "self is bad" per se or that man is as bad or depraved as he could ...

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way on the site's backend to retrieve what's been deleted. I suspect that Chad didn't copy it elsewhere, so its loss is frustrating. Hopefully we can pick up from what's remembered.